Example sentences of "lived [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For almost exactly nine years , from the late summer of 1980 to the late summer of 1989 , Poland lived through a political crisis . |
| 2 | Scott inherited the family estate in 1596 , but from 1612 until towards the end of his life he lived for a good part of the year in Canterbury . |
| 3 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 4 | It is a remarkable finding from these interviews that of those informants who married before 1918 almost half — and over half if we include those with soldier husbands — lived for an initial period , sometimes brief but often two or more years , with one of their parents before moving into a house of their own . |
| 5 | A singer of poignant songs , Rikoran was born near Mukden in Manchuria in 1920 of Japanese parents , but lived as a young girl with a Chinese family . |
| 6 | She was probably not born into the wild , but she lived as a feral dog . |
| 7 | In the country you lived as a social being and at the valuation of others . |
| 8 | He had married Jemima Mott in 1816 but lived as a childless widower from 1829 after the death of his wife . |
| 9 | This was a wicked demon who lived beneath a primordial swamp , in which seethed evil beings and spirits . |
| 10 | Which was more than she could say for Uriah Colclough , a spare , already balding man in his mid-thirties who , having been torn all his life between a religious vocation and a natural Colclough desire to make money , lived like an industrialist but dressed like a vicar . |
| 11 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 12 | Brian lived with a primitive terror of outer darkness which he rationalized as a fear of failure : this he further refined into a disinclination to live out of London . |
| 13 | Light lived with a Portuguese Eurasian , Martina Rozells , and they had five children , the eldest being William Light [ q.v. ] , the founder of Adelaide . |
| 14 | Of those living with one natural parent in 1985 , some 10% lived with a lone mother . |
| 15 | This figure declined slightly for older children , a growing proportion of whom lived with a natural parent and a step-parent . |
| 16 | For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen . |
| 17 | In one , for example , a casual labourer and his wife in their sixties lived with a woman of 79 , her son of 57 who was a street matchseller , and six younger tenants ; in another a woman of 68 was subletting to another woman of 65 , a crippled woman of sixty , and two others ; while in a third household a 71-year-old sandwich-man lived with an unrelated widow and widower of the same age and two younger tenants . |
| 18 | I lived with an elderly lady in a little thatched cottage which looked like something out of Hansel and Gretel . |
| 19 | Unfortunately her family lived under a constant cloud of danger . |
| 20 | Some of these creatures lived in a protective tube . |
| 21 | Surrounded by pianos , friends and eclectic clutter , Sir Lennox Berkeley and his wife Freda lived in a late Georgian house in Little Venice until his death last Christmas . |
| 22 | He lived in a good loose-box , and was let out to water twice a day . |
| 23 | The men of the ship 's company lived in a makeshift hut for ten months , and then took to their boats for the homeward passage , reaching Novaya Zemlya , where they met the Hope , commanded by Sir Allen W. Young [ q.v. ] , who had been sent to find them . |
| 24 | Her imagination conjured up a vision of the young , ambitious Lucenzo , struggling to study for his banking exams and to stay smart amid the chaos caused when a wife and several children lived in a cramped apartment . |
| 25 | The Heathertons lived in a tall grey house in Bath Street , in the best quarter of town ; it had coachman 's premises at the back , giving on to a narrow cobbled lane . |
| 26 | We lived in a tall , narrow Victorian house , which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war , when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat . |
| 27 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 28 | During Hannah 's childhood and well beyond , Dalesfolk lived in a closed world where to travel more than a dozen miles from the farmstead was an unusual adventure the wireless a strange and suspicious device from foreign parts and a local newspaper something of an occasional luxury . |
| 29 | Mrs Bahia lived in a neighbouring house . |
| 30 | A similar gender difference was apparent in the time spent helping someone who lived in a separate household ; here 32 per cent of women but only 22 per cent of men spent ten hours or more each week on care-giving ( Green , 1988 , p. 21 ) . |